Comments on: Study: Circumcision to lower HIV risk inconclusive in gay men

By: oliverQn

oliverQn — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:10:30 +0000

Infant circumcision is barbaric and should be banned. If you grow up and want to chop off your foreskin, that’s your business.

By: JayC

JayC — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:04:43 +0000

Circumcision is nothing but religious traditions forced on a baby. Should we also pull out a baby’s toenails because they may become ingrown? The list of possibly troublesome body parts is a very long one, but only male privates are the routine target of removal without the patient’s consent.

By: blacksteel

blacksteel — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:08:50 +0000

Julia said: “Sometimes weird ideas pop into my mind.”

That’s a weird idea all right. There’s no equivalence. Dogs are dogs, not human beings, and shouldn’t be granted a similar status. If there was an equivalence, then we could extend your idea further and question whether we should neuter dogs.

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:20:10 +0000

Sometimes weird ideas pop into my mind. Such as: how many of you men who are so against circumcision own dogs who have clipped ears or tails.

By: AlexH

AlexH — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:51:17 +0000

We should be distributing condoms and teaching about safer-sex practices over in Africa as well as right here in the USA.

The syphilis part sounds odd because I thought it was spread through contact with the chancre sore of an infected individual. Why would being circumcised or not make a difference?

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:36:37 +0000

Has there ever been a study on the health/hygiene benefits of properly administered female circumcision?

By: AngryNelly

AngryNelly — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:42:31 +0000

So, these people support sexually mutilating infants based on the possibility that they might contract a virus [which very well may have a vaccine] when they are old enough to become sexually active.

Isn’t it a better idea to encourage more education and safe-sex education? And spend some money sending those missionaries who burn condoms the hell home, while you are at it.

Leave the babies intact. “My Body My Choice” does not only apply to women!

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:30:08 +0000

Rather than mutilating male genitals, we ought to be asking ourselves why condoms aren’t used more frequently in Africa, where the study was done. Let’s at least postpone this thing until Obama can correct some of Bush’s errors regarding AIDS in Africa.